Job Description

Technical Officer/Trainee Planner

Lambeth

Contract

£20.55 per hour

Our client is looking for an experienced Technical Officer/Trainee Planner

2 days in office, up to 3 days remote

To work as a part of a team responsible for all supporting administrative functions for the processing of planning applications, including receipt, scanning, validation, consultation, committee preparation and the issuing of decision notices.

To assist with the preparation of the agenda for the Planning Application Committee.

To provide customer advice on planning matters and to accurately direct customers to the relevant authorities for advice on other topics.

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Principal Accountabilities

1. Carry out all procedures associated with the legal validation of planning applications, including checking fees, ensuring that all documents, certificates and plans are correctly supplied and negotiating variations to submitted documents and plans.

2. To receive and receipt applications and accompanying fees, ensuring that all money payments taken are properly recorded and made safe pending banking, maintaining daily records of all fees and sales income received in accordance with adopted procedures.

3. To be responsible for accurately identifying all relevant consultees for each application type and to carry out all consultation notification and correspondence procedures connected with planning application, within the required target times.

4. To use the document management system to scan and index application documents, using multiple data sources to identify the correct index to apply to documents.

5. To carry out all other support functions in connection with the processing of planning applications, including co-ordinating the major cases meeting agenda, preparation of committee presentations and the issuing of decision notices.

6. Where a recognised technical qualification is being undertaken or the postholder is suitably experienced and subject to management agreement, to deal with all aspects of range of simple planning applications.

7. To participate in the maintenance, development and implementation of processes and systems, including continuous review to ensure best working practice and service delivery.

8. To undertake basic research and record technical information including statistical returns when necessary for the performance management purposes.

9. To be responsible for logging planning application fee and sales income, refunds and associated banking functions, via the Oracle finance system.

10. To provide advice to customers both in person, by telephone or electronic means, on planning process matters and to accurately direct customers to the relevant authorities for advice on other topics.

11. To ensure that the council's statutory registers of current and decided planning applications are maintained and updated as necessary

12. To work flexibly in undertaking the duties and responsibilities of this job and participate as required in multi-disciplinary and cross-organisational groups and task teams.

13. To take responsibility, relevant to the post, for ensuring that Council statutes and government legislation is upheld. This includes, amongst others, Management Compliance Charter, Environmental Policy, Data Protection Act, Race Equality Action Plan, Quality Assurance Plan, Health & Safety, Sustainable Construction and Recycling.

14. To take responsibility, appropriate to the post for tackling racism and promoting good race, ethnic and community relations.

An understanding of the workings of the planning process

A good understanding of working in local government / the public sector and the importance of public service, ethics and standards, partnership working and customer care.

Experience of providing comprehensive administrative support, and a customer facing service, as part of a team within a busy and demanding environment.

Experience of working to tight deadlines with conflicting priorities.

Experience of providing advice to customers.

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The first part of our recruitment process is to send your CV. Should you be short listed Colbern Limited will contact you within 5 days or we may contact you about other job opportunities. Colbern Limited along with our clients are an equal opportunities employer